Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things

Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things ($8), and its sequels, Sneakier Uses for Everyday Things and Sneakiest Uses for Everyday Things, could just as easily have been called “Sneaky ways to teach your kids about electricity, chemical reactions, air pressure, and ingenuity”, but they probably wouldn’t have been as popular. Learn to transform milk into plastic, make a spy gadget jacket, turn a TV tray into a robot, and work through lots more fascinating projects. Then, the next time the kids complain one of their electronic gizmos needs batteries, you can hand them a lemon and a paperclip and tell them to make their own.